The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.