One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.

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

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

Love does not analyze its object.