Knowledge is the only elegance.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.