Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.