I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.