It's a luxury to be understood.

The eye is easily frightened.

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

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.