There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

The world exists for the education of each man.

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.