When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

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.

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

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.