"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in …"

"I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were…"

"The universe is wider than our views of it."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."