We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

All we behold is miracle.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.