The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

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

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

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.