It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Culture with us ends in headache.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.