The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.