A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.