Of All Wit's Uses, The Main One

No Change Of Circumstances Can Repair A Defect Of Character.

There Are Many Virtues In Books, But The Essential Value Is The Adding Of Knowledge To Our Stock By The Record Of New Facts, And, Better, By The Record Of Intuitions Which Distribute Facts, And Are The Formulas Which Supersede All Histories.

Though We Travel The World Over To Find The Beautiful, We Must Carry It With Us Or We Find It Not.

When A Man Says To Me, "i Have The Intensest Love Of Nature," At Once I Know That He Has None.

Every Man Is An Infinitely Repelling Orb, And Holds His Individual Being On That Condition.