The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the God of her idolatry.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

No young man believes he shall ever die.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.