Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.