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

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.

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

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.