He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.