Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.