History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.