Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.