Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

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.