We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.