You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.