We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.