Summer has set in with its usual severity.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.