"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?"

"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the soul. It is an ardent, celestial, inextinguishable flame."

"The human soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

"The healthy stomach is a good cook."