Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

The virtue of books is to be readable.