A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

I like people who like Plato.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.