Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

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.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.