We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.