All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.