Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.