Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.