All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.