It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.