If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

Ability without honor has no value.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

Society does not love its unmaskers.