Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

To see the miraculous in the common

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.