To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.