I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.