Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.