Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

I accept the universe!

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