A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

Youth is everywhere in place.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

The best of life is conversation.