Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.