How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.