A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Life is our dictionary.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.