The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.