If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

Fire is the most tolerable third party

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.