Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.