Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.