Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Speech is always bolder than action.

The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

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.