Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.