Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that he did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it.