A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

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.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.