As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

The world's history is the world's judgment.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

The dream is short, repentance long.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.