There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.