“Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.”

“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.”

“The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.”

“You were born an original. Don't die a copy.”

“An original is hard to find but easy to recognize.”

“I have found that it is better to be alone than in the wrong company. A single conversation with the right person can be more valuable than many years of study.. ”

“Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”