He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.