In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.