Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.