Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.