I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?