“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”

“The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.”

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”

“And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.”

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear, and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils, is ever put in mind, ever puts himself in mind; at last does all but lose his purpose from his thoughts; yet still without recovering his peace of mind.”