The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour him, partly for experiment's sake; but though it afforded me a momentary enjoyment, notwithstanding a musky flavor, I saw that the longest use would not make that a good practice, however it might seem to have your woodchucks ready dressed by the village butcher.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.