Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

find your eternity in each moment

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.