Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.