A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
Space is the stature of God.
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.