What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.