Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.