A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.