The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?