The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.