Accept your genius and say what you think.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.