If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.

What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.