Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!