The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.