Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.