We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.