The sun is but a morning star.

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.