Despotism is a long crime.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.