It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.