Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.