It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

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?