No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.