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.

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.