An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.