I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.