A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.