A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.