In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.