Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

There are remedies for all things but death.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.