And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.