If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.