The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?