Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.