A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

The first great law is to obey.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.