Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.