Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.