Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.