He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.