Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.