He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?