What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

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.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.