Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

I unsettle all things.

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

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

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.