I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

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

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.