Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.