It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

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

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.