Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.

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

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.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.