Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.