One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.