Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Some will always be above others.

Language is fossil Poetry.