We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

Men are what their mothers made them.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.