Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.