A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.