Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

Character is higher than intellect.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.