You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

Liberty is a slow fruit.

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.