The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.