All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.