I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

The finest wits have their sediment.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Quotation confesses inferiority.