When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.