Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.