“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”

“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”

“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.”