Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

A great man is always willing to be little.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.