Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.