To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.