The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.