As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.