I have not the most definite designs on the future.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.