A man's library is a sort of harem.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.