Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.