'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

Who loses a day loses life.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.