Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.