Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.