I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

A man is known by the books he reads.

Build therefore your own world.