Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.