The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

As soon as there is life there is danger.