Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.