Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.

Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.