“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts”

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance”

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”

“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder”

“It is better to plan less and do more”