The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

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.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.