Men are respectable only as they respect.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
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.
The hero is he who is immovably centered.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.