Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.