There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.