The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.