Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair the rest of his days.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty deed recorded; and the book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.