Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.