If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

Error is always talkative.