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

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Wonder is the basis of worship.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!