Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.