He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

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

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.