Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

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.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.