Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.