It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

The dice of God are always loaded.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.