I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
Always have old memories, and young hopes.
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.
An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.