It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.