Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.