His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

To stay youthful, stay useful.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.