“No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”

“If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.”

“And what if all of animated natureBe but organic harps diversely framed,That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweepsPlastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,At once the Soul of each, and God of All?”

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

“A great mind must be androgynous.”

“He went like one that hath been stunn'd,And is of sense forlorn:A sadder and a wiser manHe rose the morrow morn.”

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”