Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.