Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

Our best history is still poetry.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.