Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

Truth is the first of jewels.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.