We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.