That which builds is better than that which is built.

The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.