Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold.

Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingeri…

Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun. You must become an ignorant man again And see …

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.