People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.