Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

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

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.