Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.