In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

The language of the street is always strong.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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

I am a part and parcel of God.