Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.