History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.