So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

All the world loves a lover.

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.