Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.