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

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.