I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.