I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.