Be not the slave of your own past.
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.
We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.