Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.