Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.