The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Being is the great explainer.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.