Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.
I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.