The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.