Let nothing come between you and the light.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.