We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."