There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I like people who like Plato.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.