A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.