The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.