The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.