We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

To have and to want more that is life.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.