Quotes

Just as the wonder-working mantle of the Nautilus changes the material it absorbs from the water and makes it a part of itself, so the bits of knowledge one gathers undergo a similar change and become pearls of thought.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul, when she is affected with indifferency, towards those things that are by their nature indifferent.

It is enough if everyone fully performs his own proper business.

The knowledge of that unchanging rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things).

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.

You have liked many a stupider person.

Yet my heart overflowed with kindness and the love of virtue.

It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.

I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.

The narrow path of truth and virtue inclines neither to the right nor left, it is a straight-forward business, and they who are earnestly pursuing their road, may bound over many decorous prejudices, without leaving modesty behind.

You have restored to me the prospect of working with some happiness and some chance of good.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

The beautiful truth burst upon my mind--I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

You gave her good advice and broke her heart.