Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

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

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

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