Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.