The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.