We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.

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.

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.