The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.