Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

I accept the universe!

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

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

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.