Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.