Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.