Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised and shocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

Striving is perhaps the one and only true elixir, for while we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused

My angel,--his name is Freedom,-- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.