The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

Men are better than this theology.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.