What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
Necessity does everything well.
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.