Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.