it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen whose letters would stand a comparison with any for frankness, grace, and epistolary beauty of every kind. But I am not aware of any medium between this excellence and the boarding-school insignificance which characterizes the rest.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work