For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.