Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.