O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

All mankind love a lover.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.