While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.