The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

find your eternity in each moment

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?