As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.