Great men exist that there might be greater men.

Labor is God's education.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.