Genius: the superhuman in man.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

To love is the half of to believe.

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.