The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.