Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

In imitation is a bit suicide.

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.