Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.