Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

The actual well seen is ideal.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.