Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.