Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Keep your friendships in repair.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!