I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .