The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.