Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.