Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.