We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.