There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Come what may, I have been blest.