When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.