Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.