A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.