A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible

Who loses a day loses life

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake