Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.