Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.