I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

It is a great art to saunter !

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.