New York is a sucked orange.

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.