In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.