Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.