Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.