I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.