Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.