An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.