All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

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

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

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.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.