“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”

“A wise man travels to discover himself.”

“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

“At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.”

“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”

“Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.”