Accept your genius and say what you think.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.