Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Objects of charity are not guests.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.