It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy.

No man was ever great by imitation.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.