As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.