Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.