The Three States Of The Caterpillar, Larva,

The Whole Language Of Nature Informs Us, That In Animated Beings There Is Something Above Our Powers Of Investigation; Something Which Employs, Combines, And Arranges The Gross Elements Of Matter - A Spark Of Celestial Fire, By Which Life Is Kindled And Preserved, And Which, If Even The Instruments It Employs Are Indestructible In Their Essence, Must Itself, Of Necessity, Be Immortal.

I Suppose There Was Never Yet A Woman Who Had Not Somewhere Set Up On A Pedestal In Her Brain An Ideal Of Manhood. ... He Never Is Finished Till The Brain Of His Creator Ceases To Work, Till She Has Added Her Last Touch To Him, And Has Laid Down The Burden Of Life And Gone Elsewhere, Perhaps To Some Happy Land Where Ideals Are More Frequently Realised Than Ever Happens Here.

The Most Important Of My Discoveries Have Been Suggested To Me By Failures.

Profound Minds Are The Most Likely To Think Lightly Of The Resources Of Human Reason, And It Is The Superficial Thinker Who Is Generally Strongest In Every Kind Of Unbelief.

Oh, Most Magnificent And Noble Nature! Have I Not Worshipped Thee With Such A Love As Never Mortal Man Before Displayed? Adored Thee In Thy Majesty Of Visible Creation, And Searched Into Thy Hidden And Mysterious Ways As Poet, As Philosopher, As Sage?