To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is madeand at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and float whither it would bear me.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.