We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.