It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

The world we live in is but thickened light.