The life of the soul is incalculable.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.