I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Wine is earth’s answer to the sun.
I accept the universe!
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.