Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.