The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.