All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.