A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

Love, and you shall be loved.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.