There is a crack in everything God has made

I like people who like Plato.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.