Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.