Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.