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

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.