What you are comes to you.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

The dearest events are summer-rain.