The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.