Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.