By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.