Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.