If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.

In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.