Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.