It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

The plainest case in many words entangling.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!