Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.