Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.