We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

Even weak men when united are powerful.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.