It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.