Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Love does not analyze its object.

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.