Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.