I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.