But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.