America is a country of young men.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.