“I am...I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.”

“And, pleased th’ Almighty’s orders to perform,Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.”

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;”

“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”

“We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”