The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Live in the sunshine.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.