Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

The true poem is the poet's mind.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.