Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.