Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.