Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.