Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

Variety is the condition of harmony.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

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.