A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

A forte always makes a foible.