Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.