“If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.”

“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.”

“God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.”

“As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.”

“To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.”

“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar”

“Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.”

“You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.”

“Lee los mejores libros primero; lo más seguro es que no alcances a leerlos todos.”

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.”

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”

“So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.”

“Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.”

“This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.”

“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

“The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these."I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.”

“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”

“A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.”

“Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. ”

“God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.”

“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.”

“But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.”

“I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.”