Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.