It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Death is better than disease.
An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.