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

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

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.

That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

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

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.