Amid All Your Duties, Keep Some Hours

I Now Know All The People Worth Knowing In America, And I Find No Intellect Comparable To My Own.

All Greatness Affects Different Minds, Each In Its Own Particular Kind, And The Variations Of Testimony Mark The Truth Of Feeling.

Truth Is The Nursing Mother Of Genius.

The Persons Whom You Have Idolized Can Never, In The End, Be Ungrateful, And, Probably, At The Time Of Retreat They Still Do Justice To Your Heart. But, So Long As You Must Draw Persons Too Near You, A Temporary Recoil Is Sure To Follow. It Is The Character Striving To Defend Itself From A Heating And Suffocating Action Upon It.

The Public Must Learn How To Cherish The Nobler And Rarer Plants, And To Plant The Aloe, Able To Wait A Hundred Years For It's Bloom, Or It's Garden Will Contain, Presently, Nothing But Potatoes And Pot-herbs.