Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

True wit never made us laugh.