Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.