A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.