Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.