Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.