It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

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

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

Fear is cruel and mean.