I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winterdecent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.