It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.