All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.