Birds never sing in caves.

I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.