It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

There is one mind common to all individual men

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

We pass for what we are.

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.