What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.