Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

Liberty is a slow fruit.

There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?