God is Unity, but always works in variety.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

That which builds is better than that which is built.