The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

God is Unity, but always works in variety.

An empire is an immense egotism.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.