Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.