The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.