If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.