Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.