You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York.... Everything there disappoints me but the crowd; rather, I was disappointed with the rest before I came. I have no eyes for their churches, and what else they find to brag of. Though I know but little about Boston, yet what attracts me, in a quiet way, seems much meaner and more pretending than there,--libraries, pictures, and faces in the street. You don't know where any respectability inhabits.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.