It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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