If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Some will always be above others.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.