The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.