A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Genius appeals to the future.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.