I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

The world rests on principles.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

I am a majority of one.