For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.