As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusion; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.