I want to meet my God awake.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.