Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings