Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.