To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

Art is a delayed echo.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.