The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

My giant goes with me wherever I go.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.