What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be