...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.