Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

Frankness invites frankness.

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.