There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.