We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.