Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.