Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.