What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

True wit never made us laugh.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.