The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.