Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.