We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

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.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.