The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

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

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Desire is possibility seeking expression.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.