“I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day.”
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“The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.”
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
“God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.”
“Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments.”
“If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.”
“Always the soul says to us all, Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in action.”
“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”
“As we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing—only keep your temper.”
“'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.”
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”
“I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.”
“A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.”