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

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.