The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!