There is a crack in everything God has made
Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.
Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.