We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.