all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea - Herman Melville

But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence.
(Moby Dick Chapter lxxix p345)

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.