There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.