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

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

First be a good animal.

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... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.