There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.