Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.