Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

A forte always makes a foible.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.