Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

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

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.