I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

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

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.