A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.