What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Lives" of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn
I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country except your own