I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest