We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.