When a man meets his make, society begins.

All the devils respect virtue.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.