The poor are only they who feel poor.

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

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.