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

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

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

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

I find no intellect comparable to my own

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.