The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.