The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.