The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

The less government we have the better.

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.