Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

True obedience is true freedom.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.