A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.