What we call results are beginnings.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.