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

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

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

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.