To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.