It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.