We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

Politics is but a narrow field.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...