It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.