The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.