Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

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.

Song is the heroics of speech.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.