Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

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.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast