“Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!”

“I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought…”

“So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.”

“When is man strong until he feels alone?”

“Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows; Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky…”

“Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.”