Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.
Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!
True places are not found on maps.
The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.