The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.