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.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.