Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.