You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.