Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

There is ripe fruit over your head.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.