History begins in novel and ends in essay.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.