There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

Truth is the summit of being.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards