Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.