There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

All art is but imitation of nature.