Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.