The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Life too near paralyses art.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.