What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.