Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.