Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.