Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

One must be an inventor to read well.