He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.