Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.