Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.