What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

The soul circumscribes all things.