If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.