A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.