When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.