The key to every man is his thought.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.