Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.