Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

All diseases run into one, old age.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.