For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Look out! Behind you!
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.