No man can help another without helping himself.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist