Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

Every word was once a poem.

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.