The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

Genius is intellect constructive.

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?