"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

"I have a great deal of hope, and very little fear."

"The beautiful is higher than the good, because it includes the good."

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."