But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.