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

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

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.

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.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.