I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?