I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

No man can help another without helping himself.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.