The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?

I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.