If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.