This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

All truth is profound.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.