And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.