A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

People say law but they mean wealth.

If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.