The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Life is our dictionary.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.