Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.