When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.