Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.