I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Referred to the world's standard, they are always insane. Even savages have indirectly surmised as much.

The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.

Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.