A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.