A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

I am a part and parcel of God.