Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.