What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.