The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.