The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.