The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.