We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.