Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.
it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.