Every great man is unique.

In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.