One can reject all history and yet accept the world of the sea and the stars.

Of whom and of what indeed can I say: 'I know that!' This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge …

One of the temptations of an artist is to believe himself solitary ...But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in the same rank

Of all kinds of fate the least deceptive is the one that is lived.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.