Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.