Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.