Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Build therefore your own world.

Popularity is for dolls.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.