No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.