To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.