"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner."

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."

"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."

"To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."

"They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything."

"I will say this about being an optimist-- even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better."

"You are only as wise as others perceive you to be."

"I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it."

"Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."

"Don鈥檛 blog what you don鈥檛 own."