One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

Life too near paralyses art.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.