Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.