The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

The rule is to carry as little as possible.

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.