Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.