Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.