I accept the universe!

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

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and 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.