Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.