Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.