Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

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.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.