You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.