If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

All nature seems at work.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.