Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

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

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

You cannot see the mountain near.

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.