Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.