We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I am my own heaven and hell!

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.