Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

A man is known by the books he reads.

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.