Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?