In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other's presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.