Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.
Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.