My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

Earth laughs in flowers.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.