I want to meet my God awake.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.