Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.