Everything transitory is but an image.

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

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.