The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.