He only is rich who owns the day.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.