The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.