Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.