All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.