I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.