On Intelligence

"To perceive things in the germ is intelligence." --Lao-tse

"We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the Peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own--to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory." --Walter Bagehot

"The hand that follows intellect can achieve." --Michelangelo

"There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook." --Norman Douglas