True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.