I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

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.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.