Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.