Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Necessity does everything well.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

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.