"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
"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."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."