How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.