What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.