It is never too late to do right.

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.