It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.