"I have no taste for the pleasures of the senses, but I have a strong taste for the pleasures of the mind."

"I have a great deal of faith in the human mind."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"There are no days in life so memorable as those which bring with them a keen sense of a new birth, as if you had never lived before."

"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck."