The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire from sight and afterwards return again.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

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