“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success
“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed