But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.