The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'