Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.