Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.