We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.