A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.