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

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

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