Man is the dwarf of himself.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.