Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.