Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.