The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.