The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.