Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity.