My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.