God has not made this marvelous distillery of …

God has not made this marvelous distillery of thought, – the brain of man, – in order to make no use of it.The man of genius has need of no apparatus but his brain; through it his every thought must pass. Thought ascends, and buds from the brain, as the fruit from the root. Thought is the resultant of man; the root plunges into the earth, the brain into God, – that is to say, into the Infinite.

William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo