Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.