A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

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

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidatesas the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.