Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.