Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.