To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.