The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.