Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Eyes...They speak all languages.
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.