Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.