Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Calmness is always godlike.