In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.