Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.