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.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.