Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.