I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.