Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do, but inside, the terrible freedom!

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving

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.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.