Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.