Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

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.