Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England