Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

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

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

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

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