London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.