As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.