It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

Never read any book that is not a year old.