The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.