What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.