But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.