There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.